Nanny Mcphee, The Matador, Capote, and Final Destination 3 ....MOVIE REVIEWS

In order of best to worst, here goes;

Capote ................. 83%

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Catherine Keener
Clifton Collins
Chris Cooper

Let me ask you a question, do you know Truman Copote?? You will!

I'll be honest about this, I don't read much. Sure I read a lot of magazines, but rarely pick up a book. Actually the last two titles I "read" were The Positronic Man(Isaac Asimov), and The Da Vinci Code(Dan Brown), and BOTH of them were audio books. How depressing is that!! But it's after seeing the retelling of a very important part of Truman Capote's life that I feel like picking up the LAST book he ever completed......In Cold Blood, and this is what the movie is based on.

The movie is about Truman Copote and his investigation into a multiple homicide in Kansas. He intrigued by the thought that a Non-fiction can be as entralling as fiction, and he sets out to prove it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman IS Truman Capote, you'll never see him as simply an actor playing a part, he owns this role and if he doesn't win the Oscar I'll be VERY miffed.

A great cast lead by Catherine Keener as Harper Lee, a childhood friend of Capote(and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird), Clifton Collins Jr as Perry Smith(one half of the murdurous duo), and Chris Cooper as FBI agent Alvin Dewey lead the great cast.

Ultimately,you might not care about the murders or the mudered, but you will fall for the very colourful person that is .....Truman Capote.

Highly recommended, but remember to catch it BEFORE the Academy Awards.

The Matador ........ 75%

Pierce Brosnan,
Greg Kinnear,
Hope Davis

You go into a flick like this expecting so little but end up with so much.

Pierce Brosnan plays a burnt out hitman( Julian Noble ) that gets befriended by a depressed pitchman Danny Wright(played by Greg Kinnear) and ends up finding out about friendships and the pitfalls of life.

Pierce is over the top here, WAY over the top, but god is he hilarious. Dry but frenetic, friendly but cold, happy but sad, he was great!

Greg Kinnear is perfect as the depressed salesman trying to get his life back on track AGAIN. and Hope Davis plays "Bean", his wife and high school sweetheart to perfection.

Well worth a rental, and depending on extras it may be worth owning.

P.s. #2 Bond behind Sean Connery.....sorry but it's true. Too bad that the Bond flicks became about blowing things up than about mystery and intrigue.


Nanny Mcphee ......... 73% REMEMBER these are %s based an the genre.

Emma Thompson,
Colin Firth,
Kelly MacDonald

Kinda like Mary Poppins but better!

Good cast eh?? Emma plays Nanny Mcphee, Colin as Mr. Brown the widowed husband and father to a large bunch of mischevious kids, and Kelly Macdonald(hot hot hot) as scullery maid Evangeline.

The kids have driven every Nanny away since their Mother died and are intent on doing the same to Nanny Mcphee, but with Nanny Mcphee's magic and compassion win them over and helps rebuild a family.

OH, 2 more things

1 a nice little love story happens.
2 Angela Lansbury makes a nice cameo as wealthy domineering Aunt Adelaide, and plays it for all it's worth, funny stuff.

Buy this if you have kids, otherwise rent it and see if you like it like I did.


Final Destination 3 .......... 58%

Cast??

Nobody important!

Some GREAT inventive death scenes, but a bad script and bad acting make this movie ALMOST unwatchable.

For people looking for cheap boobie shots, you got them.

Find the death scenes and boobie shots online, and skip the movie in any form, because even the FREE TV version will have the only good parts cut out.

See ya later
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